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Books > Arts & Architecture > Antiques & collectables > Ceramics & glass
Figural shoes are a delightful, long-collected art form, which
especially flourished in Victorian times and after World War II.
This ground-breaking book, the first authoritative work on shoes
made of porcelain and pottery, illustrates over 1,200 from the
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They are accompanied by
hundreds of marks and carefully drawn scale sketches showing
in-mold detail and relative dimensions. Identified manufacturers
include Royal Worcester, Coalport, Spode, Meissen, Goss, Heubach,
Conta & Boehme, von Schierholz, Dedham, Morimura (Nippon),
Schafer & Vater, and the most comprehensive group of Royal
Bayreuth shoes ever published. There is also a large section on
French faience from such factories as Henriot, the elusive Alcide
Chaumeil, Moreau, Porquier, Verlingue, Longwy, and the several
Fourmaintraux families. In addition, most of the unmarked porcelain
shoes have been traced to German factories, many revealed here for
the first time. Current values are included for all. The
extensively researched text includes an alphabetical list of
manufacturers, designers, decorators, and importers, with
locations, years of operations, and product lines. Simplified,
practical explanations on manufacturing processes are included, as
are pointers for identifying and dating unmarked shoes, recognizing
fakes, and assessing values. Shoe and figural collectors and all
who appreciate fine porcelain and pottery will find this an
essential reference and a visual delight.
More than 70 contemporary international glass artists' works leap
from these pages in dynamic photos, alongside the makers' own
explanations of the methods and insights that guide their work. The
glass works range from tableware to furniture, and demonstrate
today's top levels of mastery. They are powerful, gorgeous,
sometimes startling-and always reflective of the current state of
glass art. The artists are as diverse as their masterpieces, and
their comments reveal some of the motivations and techniques that
impact them as they transform molten glass into works of art.
Everyone who works in glass or enjoys its effects will find this an
invaluable reference and an inspiration to future creativity.
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